This was fun to read right after the Bright Sword
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Flip reviewed It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
Pure grief, excellently laid out
5 stars
Flip reviewed Rose/House by Arkady Martine
“I’m a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to …
Cinematic and just right
5 stars
Flip finished reading The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to …
Flip finished reading Moonbound by Robin Sloan
The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end …
Flip finished reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Gideon the Ninth is a 2019 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir. It is Muir's debut …
Flip reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Gideon the Ninth is a 2019 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn …
I wanted to like it, but there was just nothing there
1 star
The more the world was revealed, the less I wanted to know about it. None of the characters were relatable
Flip reviewed Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun)
Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book …
Awful, tryhard prose
1 star
And edgelord narrative
Flip finished reading Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun)
Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book …
This is my example of how not to tell a story stretching all the way back to how to pick a bad story to tell
Flip finished reading The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is …
Flip started reading Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.
Grad student Alice Law has only …
Flip reviewed Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes …
It was kind of fine
3 stars
Content warning Disappointing trope confirmation
I read this for Romance Book Club because I figured a fantasy book was my excuse to see what happens at a romance book club. It's not what I usually read.
It had some nice themes, but the characters felt very shallow and uh... where was the romance? It read like fantasy written for dog people.
And I was thinking "at least the lesbians don't immediately move in together"... it was too much to hope for.
Flip started reading Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life …
Flip finished reading Memory's Wake by Django Wexler (Spelljammer)
Astonishingly well-written and plenty fun.
Flip finished reading Polostan by Neal Stephenson
Polostan by Neal Stephenson
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born …